Luke 18:9

Good News Translation

Jesus also told this parable to people who were sure of their own goodness and despised everybody else.

Cross References

Proverbs 30:12

There are people who think they are pure when they are as filthy as they can be.

Isaiah 65:5

And then they say to others, ‘Keep away from us; we are too holy for you to touch!’ I cannot stand people like that—my anger against them is like a fire that never goes out.

Isaiah 66:5

Listen to what the Lord says, you that fear him and obey him: “Because you are faithful to me, some of your own people hate you and will have nothing to do with you. They mock you and say, ‘Let the Lord show his greatness and save you, so that we may see you rejoice.’ But they themselves will be disgraced!

Leviticus 13:32

The priest shall examine the sore again on the seventh day, and if it has not spread and there are no yellowish hairs in it and it does not seem to be deeper than the surrounding skin,

Luke 10:29

But the teacher of the Law wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

Luke 15:2

the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law started grumbling, “This man welcomes outcasts and even eats with them!”

Luke 16:15

Jesus said to them, “You are the ones who make yourselves look right in other people's sight, but God knows your hearts. For the things that are considered of great value by people are worth nothing in God's sight.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood apart by himself and prayed, ‘I thank you, God, that I am not greedy, dishonest, or an adulterer, like everybody else. I thank you that I am not like that tax collector over there.

Luke 19:7

All the people who saw it started grumbling, “This man has gone as a guest to the home of a sinner!”

Luke 7:39

When the Pharisee saw this, he said to himself, “If this man really were a prophet, he would know who this woman is who is touching him; he would know what kind of sinful life she lives!”

John 8:48

They asked Jesus, “Were we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon in you?”

John 9:28

They insulted him and said, “You are that fellow's disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.

John 9:34

They answered, “You were born and brought up in sin—and you are trying to teach us?” And they expelled him from the synagogue.

Acts 22:21

‘Go,’ the Lord said to me, ‘for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”

Romans 10:3

They have not known the way in which God puts people right with himself, and instead, they have tried to set up their own way; and so they did not submit themselves to God's way of putting people right.

Romans 14:10

You then, who eat only vegetables—why do you pass judgment on others? And you who eat anything—why do you despise other believers? All of us will stand before God to be judged by him.

Romans 14:3

The person who will eat anything is not to despise the one who doesn't; while the one who eats only vegetables is not to pass judgment on the one who will eat anything; for God has accepted that person.

Romans 7:9

I myself was once alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life,